Wednesday, April 27, 2011

THIS WEEK ON TIME OUT NEW YORK

This party, which started as a no-frills fiesta in a Dumbo loft, has transformed into a weekly bash for New Yorkers seeking a blast from the past. The three local musicians behind the affair—who’ve established the legendary DJ La Boite as the event’s resident—united more than a year ago to spin funky boogaloo, psychedelic surf and trippy bossa nova, enough to get you go-going until sunrise. There’s never a cover—but there are plenty of groovy ’60s songs in Spanish or Portuguese. After breaking a sweat, you can wind down with a screening of an Argentine flick, often starring the sultry Isabel “Coca” Sarli, famous for making sexploitation films too hot for censors to handle. The weekly throwdown alternates between Williamsburg and the LES. Macri Park, 462 Union Ave at Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (718-599-4999) • The Delancey, 168 Delancey St at Clinton St (212 254-9920, thedelancey.com) • Thu 10pm; free.

Flash back to the year 1969, while the rest of the world got to groove + Go-Go in public, South America had to party on the down low. Fuzz guitars were confiscated by the police, mini skirts were condemned by the ultra conservative religious right and lists of local bands and hipster fans were compiled by the CIA and passed to powerful Dictators for prosecution.
Its no surprise that during those years, the rawest garage, the funkiest go-go, the trippiest psychedelic and Bossa Nova soul was produced in the basements of Buenos Aires, the Favelas in Brazil, the heights of Bolivia and Peru, and the jungles in Paraguay.
It's the sickest, fuzziest sound that has inspired FUZZANOVA- the South American Sixties Dance Party- hecho para el freak out!